When Denise Phillips moved from Chicago to Perrysburg in 2011 she Googled independent bookstores nearby, and the closest option was nearly an hour away.
This just wasn’t going to work for her.
“Being an entrepreneur or a small business owner was definitely never my dream,” she said. “It was sort of the ‘be the change you want to see’ kind of process. … If I want there to be a bookstore, I’m going to have to be the one to create it.”…